[luvcraft]

Hello, selectbutton peoples!!

As I do every year, I lost interest in video games over the summer and became obsessed with pinball machines, but now it's nice and cold again and my thoughts return to the video games.

Things had been getting kinda weird at work, and I also was ready for a great leap forward, so a couple months ago I quit my job and went to work full-time on an exciting new web thingy.

reccr, the amazing automated video game recommender, is that thingy! Please come check it out, and use it, and bang on it, and let me know what you think of it, and what exciting things it needs in the future (I already have lots of exciting plans for it, but I'm always open to more suggestions)!

A few of you might remember the game recommender I was working on a few years ago; this is a complete rebuild of that from the ground up in Rails, and some of you (BenRen) will be happy to hear that the rating widget is now built entirely in CSS rather than Flash.

Also, what's this new "curate topic" option?
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[Takashi]

Hey luvcraft.

This seems like a neat thing, albeit it could use some more, er social into it.

It's kinda weird being able to give ratings for games that don't exist yet.
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low-end.net | Whimsy (soon) | Serfdom 2.0

[luvcraft]

thanks, Takashi! Yeah, social aspect-ness has been requested a lot, so I think it's the next part I'm going to work on.

What sort of social aspects would you most like to see?
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[BotageL]

FYI curation is a feature which lets you basically become moderator of your own thread, with a very obvious box around the topic title to warn everyone of impending moderhation.
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http://www.mdgeist.com/

[luvcraft]

ah, ok, thanks botagel!
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[Zigfried]

Neat little site. I'll let you know suggestions later... for now I'll just run around rating and adding games as I have time to do so. (I rated In the Pit and Crosstown first!)
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Unlimited Zig Works

[BenoitRen]

Personally, I prefer sites to not be bogged down by all this social crap.
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Get Xenoblade Chronicles!

[CubaLibre]

We know you don't.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[nothingxs]

I've been rating a bunch of games.
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select button
i've gotta let go. i've gotta get straight. why'd you have to make it so hard? let me get away.
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[luvcraft]

hooray! thanks for all the ratings, guys!

A bunch of Phoenix Wright games have now bubbled up to the top of my recommendation list, but my #1 recommendation is still ExciteBots.

BenRen, when I add social crap I'll keep it as opt-out-able as possible for you. :)
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[luvcraft]

oops, Fahrenheit was in there twice and I zapped one that had two ratings, so if you rated it please rate it again. :)
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[Tulpa]

Hey this is pretty neat. Will you be adding any earlier consoles?
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[luvcraft]

Thanks! I just added PS2, Xbox, GC, and GBA over the last couple of days, and I'm not sure yet if I want to go earlier than that. If I do, I might just add the platform and not import the entire catalog of games, and just let people add the games they want to rate like I did with GBA.
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[Tulpa]

Oh I didn't know that capability was there! That's pretty great.
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[shnozlak]

[luvcraft]

glad to hear that the recommendations are good! :)

I have to approve all submissions before they go in, so hopefully I'll catch most of the confusion and redundancy. The site does track how many submissions you've had accepted, so once I start implementing social aspects I'll make that a "public" stat, but I want to avoid awarding people just for rating lots of games because I'm worried that I'll get people randomly rating things they haven't played just to get their "number of games rated" up.

Tags are a good idea; I'm planning way down the road to at least tag games by developer.

Search definitely does need some work; right now it's very very basic and literal. I should probably bump that to the top of my to-do list!

Thanks for the feedback!
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[scratchmonkey]

When I tried to login via Facebook, and then was all "No, Don't Allow", it dumps me to:

http://reccr.comnew/

Which ah, doesn't resolve. Might be a temporary thing, I'm guessing that might not be the case as that URL doesn't look right at all.

[nothingxs]

I can't find Protect Me Knight. This makes me sad.
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i've gotta let go. i've gotta get straight. why'd you have to make it so hard? let me get away.
3DSFC 1736-1476-0518

[luvcraft]

[nothingxs]

wait how do i add games what the f
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i've gotta let go. i've gotta get straight. why'd you have to make it so hard? let me get away.
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[Pro-Apocalyptic]

Planescape: Torment is missing. I'm a little confused by that.

[luvcraft]

[Persona-sama]

Is there a way to specifically remove reccr from recommending me a genre of games in general? Because I am really getting tired of ignoring every FPS game popping up.

Also there seems to be a weird problem where if you're on an individual game's page and then try rating a game in the "similar games" section to the right, the response to that selection will appear below the game of the page (on the left), not of what you rated (on the right).
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[luvcraft]

[Persona-sama]

Is rating games 1 star more efficient than ignoring them? I'm getting lots of games I have no interest in suggested to me by the "think you might like this maybe" option but I feel like ignoring them isn't enough.
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[Dracko]

[remote]

This is neat. I kind of wish the little PS3 logo was the newer, nicer slim version and not the ugly Spider-man font. Small nitpick.

Rating lots of stuff!
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letterboxd | last.fm | steam

[luvcraft]

can you point me to the new ps3 logo? I thought the spiderman one was the "official" one.
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[remote]

Clearest I can find on a quick google search. You'll see this logo on newer games, and the PS3 slim.

You weren't wrong or anything -- just a personal taste thing and a suggestion. Everything looks great, otherwise.
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letterboxd | last.fm | steam

[remote]

Also: might you be adding the PC format at any time, or is this going to be strictly console-focused?
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letterboxd | last.fm | steam

[Tulpa]

PC is already there, tagged as either Windows or OSX
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[remote]

Oops! Well, that's even better.
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letterboxd | last.fm | steam

[remote]

Also wondering: what about allowing users to rank a specific, say, top 5? Or top 10, 20, whatever?

Just something to increase the specificity of the recs.

That said, are ratings compared from user to user, or just between how similarly games are ranked?

I get some odd recs, e.g. "If you like Ico, you might like Rock Band 3...!"
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letterboxd | last.fm | steam

[SuperWes]

I'm not sure if it's there, but the user should be able to specify what systems they own and get only recommendations within those systems. I would also think that system should play a role in the algorithm. If I prefer games on a certain system the rarer should recognize that.

-Wes
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[Tulpa]

You can indeed filter by platforms
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[ghostribbon]

[luvcraft]

[BenoitRen]

I didn't even realise that you needed that. That's bullshit.
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Get Xenoblade Chronicles!

[remote]

[BenoitRen]

Why I would care? Because 1) I'm a web developer, and 2) social networks gaining a foothold into unrelated websites is a disturbing precedent.
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Get Xenoblade Chronicles!

[luvcraft]

I'm sorry you feel that way, BenRen. I was looking forward to your feedback, specifically any CSS / HTML5 gotchas since I know you're a contributor on SeaMonkey.

There's a note at the bottom of the sign-in page that explains why reccr uses Facebook and Twitter for authentication.
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